Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland

9:30 am

Dr. Cathal Gallagher:

-----will see the benefit of that is in years to come. What we have been trying to do at all grades in the operation is to increase the capabilities with regard to management and governance. Those projects are related to that. Much of the work over the period - I am 20 years in the service - has changed a lot. What is expected of people now is different from what it was when they started 20 years ago, particularly around projects they are doing on the environment. For example, we have a huge amount of new environmental legislation and a significant amount of planning. A lot of that needs skills. Many of the project management courses are directed at making sure our field staff who are involved in those projects have the skills that are required. In much of that whole domain, once we go into a river to do some work or into the riparian corridor, the number of surveys, planning applications and funding applications and the governance associated with all that has increased greatly on our staff. That is probably directed at that.

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